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Meet eBay Employee Peat Bakke
A Portland-based Senior Engineering Manager details his eBay journey over the last 20 years as a seller turned employee.
By: Francesca Hellebrandt, eBay News Team
Transforming Advertising at eBay
The eBay Ads Global Team is reinventing advertising at eBay! We’re creating innovative ad-tech solutions to optimize the ad experience on eBay. Our goal is to create a valuable experience for both buyers and sellers, while also driving success for our advertising partners. We do this by harnessing data on a massive scale to reveal the passions and lifestyles of real-life people, identifying their purchase intent. To that end, we are innovating rapidly in the ad-tech space and there is no shortage of new challenges for motivated individuals. Join us now—we are ready for you!
Careers In Advertising
Helping sellers sell faster and buyers discover their passions and great new products are core to eBay’s marketplace—that is why they are our primary focus in Ads. Where eBay helps people find their perfect, eBay Ads also helps our partners offer their perfect. As a part of our team you’ll get to partner with individuals and teams across the global company—product managers, engineers, finance, analytics, product marketing managers, sales, and operations. Become a part of eBay history and find your perfect fit on our team.
Engineering
It’s all about the code. If you are a backend, frontend, fullstack, iOS, or Android engineer and want to revolutionize the advertising space for eBay and beyond, we have a role for you. Our team members are building apps, crafting new platforms, and solving complex problems at a massive scale, to offer users the best choice and the most relevance inspired by the most powerful selling platform.
Quality Engineering
It’s not right until you say so. Our Quality Engineers ensure that new releases work as expected for our buyers and sellers, every time. Create end-to-end test plans and then execute them to validate that our solutions have met or exceeded all requirements and business objectives. You are the ultimate gatekeeper of the customer experience.
Product Management
Deliver the end-to-end product experiences that our buyers and sellers love. Your passion is to develop the vision, strategy, and goals to execute our products across teams at eBay. You’ll drive the lifecycle from concept to launch in a way that fosters the growth of our Ads business, enabling buyer discovery and seller velocity.
Sales & Operations
Connect with Sellers and Brands to amplify and grow their business on eBay. You’ll provide strategic consultation on how best to successfully leverage eBay Ads Solutions to achieve their objectives, and work with them to set-up, launch, and optimize campaigns. Together with our partners, we dig deep into our first-party real intent data to uncover unique insights to deliver the right ad experiences to the right user at the right time every time.
Meet Some of Our Team Members
Advertising is an amazing place to grow your career because each team member gets to directly improve the customer experience every day while being part of a rapidly growing business.
Steve Neola
Director, Ads Product Management
New York, NY
Steve has been with eBay for 6 years and currently leads teams spanning seller advertising interfaces and buyer recommendations. He describes these teams as highly collaborative and ambitious—both are driving factors behind his career in Advertising.
Advertising is an amazing place to grow your career because each team member gets to directly improve the customer experience every day while being part of a rapidly growing business.
Steve has always found deep meaning in helping millions of high quality sellers grow their livelihood and in buyers finding great deals and unique inventory.
Outside of work, Steve loves to attend high intensity interval training classes and all types of live music events that include percussion.
Favorite purchase on eBay: A Gretsch 1960's drum set
The people and the complexity of technical problems to solve are top reasons why I love eBay Advertising!
Angela Friday
Ads Engineering Manager
Portland, OR
Angela has held a variety of roles across Advertising and her current focus is on how advertising is delivered across desktop and mobile experiences. She and her team are constantly driving change across the eBay site by rebuilding architecture and stewarding consistent UI across platforms.
The people and the complexity of technical problems to solve are top reasons why I love eBay Advertising!
Angela originally started at eBay as one of the first quality engineers on our Android app. Her role has expanded to match her aspirations since, and she now manages teams focused on front-end user interfaces and platform work.
In her spare time, Angela enjoys photography, reading, baking, and spending time with her dog Leo.
Favorite purchase on eBay: A Rollei 35S camera, one of the smallest 35mm film cameras ever made and ideal for travel
It is fun, challenging, yet rewarding, to work in an energetic and supportive environment. What more I can ask?
Harwinder Singh
Ads Quality Engineer
San Jose, CA
Harwinder joined eBay in 2017 as a Software Quality Engineer and has worked across multiple teams working to resolve major customer challenges to help them ace their advertising strategy. Exposure to cutting edge technologies and opportunity to quench his desire to learn and grow are just a few of the reasons that keep him motivated.
It is fun, challenging, yet rewarding, to work in an energetic and supportive environment. What more I can ask?
Harwinder has worked on a variety of projects in his career, but calls Advertising his most thrilling opportunity to date. He is proud of the direct impact of his and his team’s work on buyers, sellers, and across eBay.
Outside of work, Harwinder likes to spend time with his family, read books, and volunteer.
Favorite purchase on eBay: A magnificent bronze eagle statue which still adds elegance to his family room
When I think of eBay Advertising, I think of one word: momentum.
Lucie Catillon
Associate, Ads Marketing Communications
San Francisco, CA
When Lucie thinks of eBay Advertising, she thinks of one word: momentum. It’s part of what makes her day-to-day so exciting and one of the many reasons she joined the company in 2019. As a Marketing Communications Associate, she is on the front lines of our story: who we are, what we do and why eBay Advertising is a must-buy for any advertisers looking to reach passionate shoppers.
When I think of eBay Advertising, I think of one word: momentum.
Lucie’s excitement for Ads extends to her collaboration with our cross-functional teams, including helping develop sales enablement materials to illustrate eBay’s value to our Advertisers.
Outside of work, she enjoys gardening, home improvement and playing piano.
Favorite purchase on eBay: A white baby grand piano to practice Chopin
How We Get Things Done
In advertising, the sky is truly the limit. You’ll get an unparalleled opportunity to make an impact and the scope of your remit will only be exceeded by your career aspirations. We’re expanding and growing at record pace, and there is no better time to join than now.
Advertising Stats
1.2M
sellers have used Promoted Listings to advertise their products on
eBay
310M
listings have leveraged our Promoted Listings product
111%
increase in Promoted Listings revenue year over year
Data as of April 29, 2020.
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